KaleidHERscope - Episode 47: Both oppressed and completely free: S.African poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers talks about her identity journey (6/5/2025)

May 06, 2025 00:56:49
KaleidHERscope - Episode 47: Both oppressed and completely free:  S.African poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers talks about her identity journey (6/5/2025)
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KaleidHERscope - Episode 47: Both oppressed and completely free: S.African poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers talks about her identity journey (6/5/2025)

May 06 2025 | 00:56:49

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Magda ZENON

Show Notes

South African poet and performance artist Dr. Phillippa Yaa de Villiers discusses her identity journey with Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope, reflecting on her experience as a mixed-race African and adoptee raised by a white family in apartheid South Africa; a journey that placed her in the paradoxical position of being both oppressed and completely free.

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